Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade reports: Executive Summary On Thursday, February 24th, 2022, a cyber attack rendered Viasat KA-SAT modems inoperable in Ukraine. Spillover from this attack rendered 5,800 Enercon wind turbines in Germany unable to communicate for remote monitoring or control. Viasat’s statement on Wednesday, March 30th, 2022 provides a somewhat plausible but incomplete description of…
Ph: Smartmatic admits ‘data leak’ but not related to 2022 polls
Third Anne Peralta-Malonzo reports the latest into the investigation into claims of a Comelec leak. SMARTMATIC Inc., the country’s major provider for the upcoming 2022 automated elections, has admitted data leak from its system but assured that it is not related to the polls, Commission on Elections (Comelec) chairperson Saidamen Pangarungan said Friday, April 1,…
If You Came Here Looking for Information on a Class Action Settlement?
A number of people have been posting comments or actually calling me about class action lawsuit settlements. This site reports news about lawsuits and settlements. Sometimes this site may show up in a Google search for those looking for information about a breach or class action lawsuit, but this site only reports news. This site…
Hive claims Partnership HealthPlan of California as a victim
For a brief period yesterday, visitors to Hive ransomware’s leak site would have seen Partnership HealthPlan of California listed. According to the listing, the threat actors claim to have exfiltrated 850,000 unique records with name, Social Security Number, date of birth, address, contact information, and more. Hive claimed that they had 400 GB of stolen…
Ca: 120 patients victims of Chatham-Kent Health Alliance privacy breach
The Chatham Voice reports: It happened again. Chatham-Kent Health Alliance (CKHA) officials report a large-scale breach of health records, and they say two staffers were responsible. The two people, already terminated by the alliance, went snooping into the health records of about 120 patients. Read more at The Chatham Voice.
Apple and Meta Gave User Data to Hackers Who Used Forged Legal Requests
More about the successful use of forged emergency data requests that Brian Krebs reported about yesterday. Now William Turton reports: Apple Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, provided customer data to hackers who masqueraded as law enforcement officials, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. Apple and Meta provided…